Collection items

'Are we afraid? No!' A propaganda postcard depicti...

Postcard, Illustration

What is this?  The start of the First World War saw the publication of large amounts of supportive, patriotic ephemera d...

Battle of the Yser, 1914

Postcard, Illustration

This postcard depicts the cruelty of the Battle of the Yser in October 1914. It shows an elderly farmer with a dead cow,...

French poster 'The voice of the ruins'

Poster, Drawing

This poster was released in March 1918 in an educational review. It is of particular interest as it expresses a widely s...

How the Door of Peace was Opened

Poster, Illustration

In this poster the Italian Eighth Army celebrate breaking through the enemy front and their occupation of the city of Vi...

Ligue Souvenez-vous

Postcard, Booklet

This ensemble, which includes a booklet, a postcard and a collection of stamps, was created during the First World War b...

My Mission to London, by the German Prince Lichnow...

Book

As ambassador to England, Prince Lichnowsky struggled hard to avert war. On his return to Germany, he remained a vocal a...

'Our French allies have a cart full of dead German...

Poster, Lithograph

When Russia was doing well at the beginning of the First World War there was a trend towards producing politically commi...

Propaganda flyer dropped during a flight over Vien...

Leaflet

This leaflet was one of many ‘bombed’ on Vienna by the air squadron of Gabriele d’Annunzio (1863-1938), a poet-soldier o...

The Bryce report: Committee on alleged German outr...

Report

Germany invaded neutral Belgium on 4 August 1914. Their armies killed 6,500 civilians there and in northern France that ...

The Butcher came along to Łodz, We said: ‘My good...

Poster

This is an anti-German patriotic poster. It is divided into two halves: on the left a German (The Butcher) is arriving...

The English Beast by Count Paul von Hoensbroech

Book, Drawing

The fervent German nationalist Count Paul von Hoensbroech launches a fierce attack on the ‘predator’ England in this pam...

The great patriotic of war of 1914, a Russian post...

Poster, Illustration

The battle near Ivan-gorod (Ivan-town) pictured here is part of the bigger operation in East Prussia (part of Germany) k...

The heroes

Illustration

This satirical drawing depicts the heads of the Central Powers in World War One: Wilhelm II of Germany, Franz Joseph I o...